Understand How to Use Keys for Identification

 Keys are used to help to identify something. They are really useful when studying habitats as there are so many plants and animals that students (and teachers!) don't know the name of - keys help us to find out the name of the organism.

There are two main sorts of keys:

Spider keys use a branching system like this:

Clue keys use clues to help find the name, like this:

and so on.

In the following questions, we will use keys to try to identify something.

We will also find the name of something using clues given in the key.

Are you ready to begin?